The box of Maverick Vinales at Yamaha will be significantly overhauled in 2019. His coach Wilco Zeelenberg will have left for the new Yamaha Petronas, one of his mechanics, Javier Ullate, in place since the time Lorenzo, will no longer be landscape and, last but not least, the chief mechanic Ramon Forcada, also from the Por Fuera era, will be crossed out. A purge ? We do not know. But until then silent, the future banished speaks on the airwaves ofMotorsport...
Ramón Forcada will remain within the fold of Yamaha and undoubtedly within the next satellite structure financed by Petronas. A movement in numbers that we anticipated and which became more and more obvious as the distance increased with the last victory of Vinales in MotoGP. Or the 2017 French Grand Prix. An unbearable shortage for the driver and which made the atmosphere heavier between the Spaniard and his dedicated man in the box.
No one is therefore surprised that a new man will arrive at his side, namedStephen Garcia, arriving from KTM and who knows Vinales for helping him win the Moto3 title. But it's the way things happened that annoys Forked : “ Yamaha communicated these changes to me a few days ago. Certainly. But from the pilot, I never received a word on the subject. I do not know what happened. You have to ask the pilot. There were no complaints, no bad gestures either, nothing. I can't tell you anything about the situation ».
He pursues : " all pilots have their needs and wants, but as long as the pilot doesn't tell us anything, then we don't know anything. We have to go talk to him. Everyone tries to remain professional, so we will do the work as we have always done it, the relationships will be the same as before, for me there will be no difference. I will try to ride a winning bike until my last Grand Prix with him. I will continue to do my job, as I have done all my life ».
Maverick Vinales will start twelfth in the Czech Republic Grand Prix at the end of qualifications started in Q.1 from which he was drafted with Alex Rins. The latter will start ninth.
